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TK-390 Voice Scramble/Inversion

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giant22000

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I recently bought 2 TK-390's and read that they have voice scramble capabilities. I also read that they might require an add on board to enable this.

Did i read wrong and they support voice scramble natively or is there a way to tell if the radios have the add on scrambler board without opening the radio up?


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I recently bought 2 TK-390's and read that they have voice scramble capabilities. I also read that they might require an add on board to enable this.

Did i read wrong and they support voice scramble natively or is there a way to tell if the radios have the add on scrambler board without opening the radio up?


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I am not sure if these two radios are the same, but at the least it is some food for thought.

The Kenwood TK-2180/3180 have built in voice inversion without the need for a board. BUT it can be monitored with another like radio. The optional boards you have two choices with: non-rolling and rolling encryption. Both are effective but the rolling changes the encryption and there is around 1048 different sets of encryption it could be. The non-rolling has I think 16 sets of encryption but they do not roll, or change encryption periodically.

If I have left something out someone feel free to elaborate.


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